Tor Stack Exchange
Tor Stack Exchange

Most Popular

more tags
1500 questions
3
votes
1 answer

relaying for hidden services is dangerous as exit relaying?

Criminals use Tor same as other users. running exit node have serious risks and effects (i can't make google searches any more after that). relaying for hidden services is risky too or its safe as middle routing?
TorSaqi
  • 31
  • 1
3
votes
1 answer

Does traffic exit Tor at the same node for all ports?

Exit Relays can be set to allow traffic to exit the Tor network only over certain ports. Vidalia even makes this super-simple by giving options like "Normal, unencrypted Web browsing" or "IRC clients and servers". This answer notes that: Tor…
Andrew Lott
  • 2,754
  • 5
  • 29
  • 46
3
votes
1 answer

When talking about a hidden service, what does it mean to have an encrypted descriptor?

What is an "encrypted descriptor?" What are the pros and cons of using one? In what version of Tor did they first become available? Are they automatically used (i.e. default)? If not, how do you enable the use of one? Note: The current Hidden…
user515
  • 371
  • 2
  • 5
3
votes
0 answers

tor is not working

01/09/2015 10:17:55 ص.000 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections. 01/09/2015 10:17:57 ص.400 [NOTICE] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 01/09/2015…
Islam Abu Algassim
  • 31
  • 2
3
votes
1 answer

Which kinds of relaying Tor servers are available as "rendezvous points" and "introduction points" for hidden services?

There appears to be several kinds of nodes (Tor instances acting as servers relaying traffic for others): Clients with Relaying disabled (Included in this list only for completion, as their IPs are not published, so they cannot be used). Private…
user515
  • 371
  • 2
  • 5
3
votes
1 answer

Does Tor have any protection against bandwidth misuse?

Let's say someone runs 100 Tor instances on their machine and with their high speed internet connection -> download huge volumes of data through all of those instances. Are there any mechanisms within Tor to prevent such misuse?
wolfgang
  • 153
  • 1
  • 5
3
votes
1 answer

Can't open Tor Browser in Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.4

I have downloaded Tor three times and I keep getting the message: Tor Browser Profile Problem You cannot run Tor Browser from a read-only file system. Please copy Tor Browser to your Desktop or Applications folder before trying to use…
Babs
  • 31
  • 2
3
votes
2 answers

Whonix problem with others IPs

I have a problem with two other IP addresses. Whonix-Workstation shows a different IP than the Gateway? Is it obliged to be this way? My host OS is Kubuntu, and on it I have VirtualBox running whonix-gateway and whonix-workstation. The loaded…
Lump
  • 31
  • 1
3
votes
3 answers

Designing P2P application over Tor

I am building a P2P C++ application that uses tor as a socks proxy to connect to the internet. This P2P app will only connect to other users running the same application, so all the communication between this app and the wild world would be through…
Nathan Parker
  • 225
  • 2
  • 5
3
votes
2 answers

Converting an existing Tor relay into a bridge, does it make sense?

I have been running a relay for a couple of years. Now I see that with my connection bandwidth of 1 Mbit it makes more sense to run a bridge. I could just convert my relay into a bridge. However, I am concerned that such a bridge will not be…
ilya
  • 105
  • 1
  • 6
3
votes
1 answer

How to block all non-tor network traffic on GNU/Linux?

What is the simplest way to identify and block all non-tor network traffic on GNU/Linux? I assume the most effective way would be some kind of iptables rule to distinguish between tor and non-tor traffic and block the latter. (I know that one…
Gary
  • 31
  • 1
  • 2
3
votes
1 answer

Does a Tor node "know" what layer of the onion they are in?

I think a Tor circuit looks like this when sent Key1.Encrypt(Key2.Encrypt(Key3.Encrypt(Key4.Encrypt(Key5.encrypt(DATA))))); ... where KeyX represents the RSA or ECC encryption of a node in the chain. If a client sends a fixed length data chunk, and…
makerofthings7
  • 183
  • 7
3
votes
1 answer

How do I save a screenshot in Tails?

When I hit "PrtScn" the screen blinks hinting a screenshot is being taken, but then I can't paste it into Gimp. It says there is nothing to paste.
SignatureMess
  • 173
  • 1
  • 4
  • 11
3
votes
1 answer

Tor Time Synchronization Issue

I'm running Tor on a VPS and the service provider is not co-operating. I am using the command line and not the Vidalia bundle, and I have a problem with time synchronization. I have given the right time to both "date" & "hwclock". Here's the output…
Morgan
3
votes
1 answer

Is the Tor browser always using at Tor ciruit?

I'm using the Tor browser (4.5.3) and when I press the green onion I can see the current Tor circuit that's in use at the moment. Now, is the browser always using a Tor circuit? Because sometimes when I rightclick and open links in new tabs and then…
Danne
  • 31
  • 1
  • 2
1 2 3
…
99 100